Original Vintage Emergency! Public Information Film

[timpriddy73]

THE TRUCK CHANGED TWO YEARS OLDER ENROUTE

[KC9SYJ]

How neat! I never knew this video/film existed. The show being made so realistic is why I am such a big fan of the show! I wonder just how many community leaders across the nation viewed this at that point in time and began this type of operation in their area!

[wkat950]

The only bad thing about the video is that skeptical municipal leaders would say, "Ah that's just a promo for a TV show" or "That's science fiction; it doesn't really happen." This is because the viewers don't realize that the producers made the show so realistic. The "Emergency!" series itself inspired many to ask for decent EMS in the country.

[engine173351]

paramedic51, we can always count on you to bring us the "good stuff" of Emergency!

[paramedic51]

@engine173351 Thank you so much! More stuff is coming soon!

[thefirefighter2011]

@engine173351

Yeah, including the full episode of that classic tv show entitled "Peace Pipe" with original NBC tv commercials too!

[metalbornmetalbred]

i never knew this existed. this definately goes in my favorites!

[Dproud2700]

OMG! I heard about this film and its use as a promotional tool for fire departments to get a paramedic program going. They tried it in my city back in the 70's and litteral "dog and pony show" that was used as well. Our mayor's only question to the fire department which she asked about three times was "How much is the program going to cost the city" Needless to say the program was not adopted and the private sector was the provider of paramedic services.

[stgcomm75]

Harbor General should look familiar as the exterior of "Rampart" Hospital.

Industrial incident at about 0:12 is from "Nurses Wild"

Cardiac case at about 3:45 is from "Crash". Funny enough, those three people were burglars and not residents of the house.

MVA at about 8:20 is from "Mascot"

OB case at 8:45 is from "Cook's Tour"

Drug OD at 9:00 is from "Dealers Wild"

Electrocution around 9:14 is from the pilot

Structure fire at 9:30 is the pilot opening scene

[dapoetmaster]

He was gonna bop Francine York but his ticker couldn'tq handle it!

[SuperNezzy]

Very cool!!! TY for posting, PM :-)

[wonderglory]

How informative.

[thefirefighter2011]

@wonderglory

did that "Emergency!" public information film from 1972 air right after that world premiere two hour tv pilot?

[wonderglory]

@thefirefighter2011 I don't know. I was still just a baby at the time, having been born the previous year.